African Athelete Caster Semenya Have Male And Female Sex Organs

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Gender tests on South African athlete Caster Semenya have found she is a hermaphrodite, an Australian newspaper reported on Friday, as a senior official admitted she may not be "100 percent" female.

Sydney's Daily Telegraph, citing an unnamed source involved in the tests on the world 800m champion, said she had both male and female sex organs and no womb or ovaries.

"There certainly is evidence Semenya is a hermaphrodite," the source was quoted as saying.

Pierre Weiss, secretary-general of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), earlier told AFP that Semenya was "possibly between two sexes".

"It is clear that she is a woman but maybe not 100 percent," Weiss said, adding that the case would be decided by the IAAF executive council in November.

"We have to see if she has an advantage from her possibly being between two sexes compared to the others."

The furore has enraged South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, which called testing the 18-year-old "sexist and racist".

The IAAF has said Semenya, 18, is unlikely to be stripped of her world title earned last month in Berlin, but confirmed four athletes in earlier cases were "asked to stop their career".